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Tue
26
Dec

Start the new year with a hike at Pikes Peak

Submitted by admin on Tue, 12/26/2017 - 10:33

Join the staff and Friends of Pikes Peak State Park on a free, guided hike on New Year’s Day. Hikers can meet at 1 p.m., at the stone shelter in the park, for a one-mile hike led by park manager Matt Tschirgi.  

“This is the seventh year the DNR is hosting First Day Hikes as part of an effort to get people outdoors and into our state parks,” said Todd Coffelt, chief of the DNR State Parks Bureau. “These hikes are a great way to get outside, exercise, enjoy nature and welcome the New Year with friends and family.”

Last year, more than 1,200 people began the year in an Iowa state park, hiking more than 1,100 total miles. This year, 25 state parks will host First Day Hikes.

Tue
26
Dec

Barbara LaVonne Schultz

Submitted by admin on Tue, 12/26/2017 - 09:25

Barbara LaVonne Schultz, 82, of McGregor, died Wednesday, Dec. 13, at her home in McGregor. 

 

Thu
21
Dec

Harold Frank Vorwald

Submitted by admin on Thu, 12/21/2017 - 11:20

 

Harold Frank Vorwald, 83, Monona, died peacefully with his family by his side on Monday, Dec. 18, at North Gate Care Center, Waukon.

 

Tue
19
Dec

TAG students benefit from trial and error

Submitted by admin on Tue, 12/19/2017 - 12:47

Isabella Torkelson (left), Evelyn Ruff and Tricia Bacon work on their air drop packages during a recent TAG session at the MFL MarMac McGregor Center. (Photos by Audrey Posten)

Holden Mathis (left) and Kole Pape, with the help of Nate Weber, test their fish’s prosthetic tail.

Amelya Weigand (left) and Kaylee Nuehring use Play-doh to help form the fish's prosthetic tail.

Mindy Keehner hopes pipe cleaners will help the "fish."

By Audrey Posten, North Iowa Times Editor

Designing animal prosthetics, creating air drop packages to deliver food to disaster victims: these sound like activities conducted in high-tech laboratories. While that may be true, they’re also happening within the walls of the MFL MarMac McGregor Center, where students in the Talented and Gifted (TAG) program are taking on real-world engineering scenarios.

Around 40 students in fourth through eighth grade participate in the program, which gives them an opportunity to experience new learning challenges and think in ways they might not in the regular classroom.

Tue
19
Dec

City of Marquette ‘stuck’ when it comes to Walz Energy

Submitted by admin on Tue, 12/19/2017 - 12:34

By Audrey Posten, North Iowa Times Editor

“There’s nothing you can do until something happens.”

That was Marquette city attorney Dan Key’s advice to the city council when asked, at its Dec. 12 meeting, if there is anything the city can do to halt construction of the Walz Energy facility currently being built east of Monona.

Construction on the 10,000-head cattle feedlot and biogas operation began earlier this year. Its location in the Bloody Run Creek Watershed, and in an area with sinkhole-prone karst topography, has many concerned about the effect on water quality, both to Bloody Run and the ground water.

Tue
19
Dec

Students hone writing skills through NaNoWriMo

Submitted by admin on Tue, 12/19/2017 - 11:27

By Audrey Posten, North Iowa Times Editor

Few people can say they’ve written a novel. Even fewer have done it as teenagers. But, as of Dec. 1, most of the MFL MarMac eighth grade class had completed the unique accomplishment.

“Every year, it gets better and better,” said Scott Boylen, who, each November for seven years, has challenged his eighth grade language arts students to participate in the online creative writing project NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month).

Mon
18
Dec

Anita J. Cox

Submitted by admin on Mon, 12/18/2017 - 15:47

 

Anita J. Cox, 79, of McGregor, died Saturday, Dec. 16, at Crossing Rivers Health Hospital in Prairie du Chien.

 

Tue
12
Dec

Through Enrichment, students build on their own learning processes

Submitted by admin on Tue, 12/12/2017 - 12:38

Nate Weber, K-12 outreach program coordinator with Clayton County’s Iowa State Extension Office, tests a bridge with MFL MarMac third graders and Enrichment participants McKenna Kozelka (left), Parker Waterman, Gunnar Ross and Hannah Jacobson. (Photos by Audrey Posten)

Second graders Kambry Keehner (left) and Addison Corlett work together to build a bridge during their Enrichment session.

By Audrey Posten, North Iowa Times Editor

Popsicle sticks, string, note cards, newspaper, masking tape. If you had to build a small bridge—sturdy enough to hold a jar of marbles—which materials would you use?

That’s a decision second and third graders in MFL MarMac Elementary’s Enrichment program had to make during a recent session.

Each tackled the project in his or her own way, adapting to the time constraints and the materials available to them. Bridge not long enough? Add another Popsicle stick. Not strong enough? Wrap it with another strip of tape. Buckling under pressure? Create a paper cylinder to hold the bridge up from beneath. 

Tue
12
Dec

Workshops will allow participants to dabble in several art forms

Submitted by admin on Tue, 12/12/2017 - 12:36

For the fourth year, the McGregor-Marquette Center for the Arts (MMCA) will offer a series of winter art workshops. Starting in January and running through early March, the low-cost workshops will provide instruction on a variety of mediums, from clay and painting to wool felting and basket weaving. (NIT file photo)

During one of the clay sessions, Mike Kabele will lead the class in making decorative wall pockets. (NIT file photo)

By Audrey Posten, North Iowa Times Editor

For the fourth year, the McGregor-Marquette Center for the Arts (MMCA) will offer a series of winter art workshops.

Starting in January and running through early March, the low-cost workshops will provide instruction on a variety of mediums, from clay and painting to wool felting and basket weaving.

“What got it started,” said MMCA board president Sandy Stevens, “was that we wrote a grant to work with students. We were able to purchase a kiln, pottery wheel and other supplies.”

Mon
11
Dec

James Raymond Teaser

Submitted by admin on Mon, 12/11/2017 - 10:38

James Raymond Teaser, 85, passed away at his home in McGregor, on Dec. 2, after a short illness. 

He was born in southwestern Minnesota on Nov. 16, 1932, at Hunt Hospital in Fairmont, the youngest child of Henry Raymond and Mary Lillian Hines Teaser. Jim grew up on the family farm that was homesteaded by his great-great grandfather, Irish immigrant James Murphy. 

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